The Significant Difference between Cancer Patients

M1 Discuss complementary therapies that are available for users of health and social care services

This can indicate that the orthodox treatment that the individual may undergo may not be as useful for them as the therapy as the therapist may be aware of why the individual can be ill due to the blocked pathways. However, relating this to cancer, the orthodox treatment can still be beneficial for the individual due to the radiotherapy killing the cancer cells. Although, the complementary therapy may not be as useful for the individual, it could still make them feel at ease once the energy is being resorted and is balance. The complementary therapies could support the

Understand complementary therapies that can be used by users of health and social care services

Cancer has one of the biggest effects on the patients mental health but also the patients loved ones and friends. It is one of the hardest things to get a grip on when the doctor tells someone that they have cancer and a fifty-fifty chance of making it. "The disease can bring many changes-in what people do and how they look, in how they feel and what they value" (Dakota 4). It makes people look at the world and their lives in a different way, valuing now what they took for granted and seeing the bigger picture in every scenario. It is something that no one can actually brace, even after the doctor tells them. Through it all though, the person must remain strong and optimistic because the cancer can affect the person's moods and in return affect the outcome of the person and the chances of their making it

Complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, can be characterized as a gathering of restorative, human services, and healing systems other than those incorporated into health care in the United States. CAM incorporates the perspectives, speculations, modalities, items, and practices connected with these systems and their utilization to treat disease and advance health and prosperity (McKenzie, 2012). Even though heterogeneous, the significant CAM frameworks have numerous normal attributes, including an attention on individualizing medications, treating the entire individual, advancing self-consideration and self-recuperating, and perceiving the otherworldly way of every person. What's more, numerous CAM frameworks have attributes generally found in standard human services, for example, an emphasis on great sustenance and preventive practices. Dissimilar to standard medication, CAM frequently needs or has just restricted trial and clinical concentrate; then again, experimental examination of CAM is starting to address this learning crevice. In this manner, limits in the

This resource will address the personal adjustments to routines, habits and knowledge the individual will need to consider through their transition from undergoing regular cancer treatment to commencing life outside of medical intervention (Kralik, Visentin & van Loon, 2006). Kralick et al. (2006) recognize transition as a process that an individual must experience within themselves in order to reach acceptance. The

Abstract Cancer “Sucks” and many individuals today are dealing with it or know someone who has dealt with it. The late president Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971 and we have been fighting the battle ever since (McCarthy, 2015, paras. 16). Since the declaration many possible cures were developed and chemotherapy is the one which seems to work on almost every cancer. However, this treatment has drawbacks that are either controversial or questionable as to what degree they help with defeating cancer.

Unfortunately 30% of people in the US will develop cancer at some point, and two-thirds of those will eventually succumb as a result. In dealing with cancer, many patients have symptoms from the disease along with side effects of the medications that are extremely debilitating.

In their article“Assessment of Distress and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Over the Course of Chemotherapy”, they hope to inform potential cancer nurses about the pain that different patients of different backgrounds go through. They record the pain and quality of life from before treatment begins, while treatment is going on, and after treatment. The authors do not explain how adolescents thought process help or inhibit them from making the right choice, but it shows that they are taking the what the patients say to heart. This is the reason that I chose this article. Also the range of education varied through the study participants. Some patients only had a level of elementary school. If these people are capable enough to not only understand the consequences of treatment , but they also understood the conditions of the study that they are participating in. This article also seems helpful because it is a part of a peer reviewed academic journal. So it is understood that the two author really know what they are talking about.

They go through enormous physiological and psychological stressors once they diagnosed and throughout their treatment program. There is an immediate need of rehabilitation program for cancer patients to meet their physiological and psychological need. Those who try to manage their stress with risky behaviors such as smoking and drinking or they live sedentary lives can lead to poor quality of life during their diagnosis and their treatment (Harding, M. 2012). On the other hand people with the good coping mechanism, they deal their stressors with effective relaxation technique and have less psychological and physiological stress related to cancer and its treatment. Evidence from experimental studies shows that psychological stress increases the tumor to grow and advance quickly. As a nurse, we should provide emotional and social support that can help patient to cope effectively with their psychological stressors (Andrykowski et al., 2008). This will help them reduce anxiety and also assist them in adopting good coping behavior for example participation in yoga and meditation. Other approaches of good coping behaviors are exercise, participating in counseling and attending cancer education programs (NCI, 2015). Also, people who used to exercise before their cancer diagnosis they cannot return to their same level of physical activity due to fatigue and pain. As

Caring for cancer patients can be very complex at times. According some, the availability of a range of health care providers hones poor communication and

Cancer. We all know someone who has suffered from it or has passed away because of it. Cancer now affects one in every three people, and is the second highest cause of death in the United States. For decades, the medical community has been on the hunt for a cure for cancer, and have been subjected to intense ridicule from the public because of a lack of progression toward a possible cure. In recent years, many scientists, doctors, researchers, and the general public have come to believe that the cure for cancer is being suppressed because of this lack of progress. Those who say it is suppressed claim that the drugs used to treat cancer actually cause cancer, making a patient sicker and sicker. As a result, the patients are forced to spend

HINTS is an organization that conducts surveys to random people around the United States. The surveys are mainly on topics relating to cancer and how those people are familiar to cancer-related information. This information is helpful to see the pattern of change in people’s knowledge and potential opportunities to inform the public of common or uprising health issues. The surveys want to know how adults, from the ages 18 and older, obtain information, mainly about cancer topics, either for their own use or for a relative or friend. With this information available, HINTS can find better opportunities to spread knowledge of cancer prevention and hopefully reduce the number of people diagnosed with this lethal disease. HINTS has Three

For this experiment, treatment 1 are the results from only chemotherapy and treatment 2 are the results from both chemotherapy and radiation. By looking at the table and the side-by-side boxplot, treatment 1 has a higher median, mean and max than treatment 2 which suggests that only using chemotherapy is the better option because the cancer patients will live longer. The median and the mean are the key components for comparing the two datasets because that is where all of the data points are centered around. Both the mean and median are rather large for treatment 1 compared to treatment 2, so there are signs that only using chemotherapy is statistically significant than both treatments, but that can’t be proven until a test is done in the next

Today, many psychologists feel that psychological therapy can give cancer patients’ a longer life. The first to take this stance was Psychiatrist David Spiegel M.D., of Stanford University School of Medicine, in a 1989 study Spiegel gathered patients once a week to discuss there feelings about the cancer and here they received support from other cancer sufferers. “When Spiegel followed up a decade later, he discovered that patients who had participated in the sessions had survived an average of 18 months longer than those in the control group” (Clay,2000). It is felt that if you can tap into a patients mind and help them deal with the cancer by dealing in the mental aspect of it that it will be